Neurons that fire together, wire together

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A note for Lesson no. 3, "Little Brains Wire Themselves to Their World," in Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett.
Some context from page 51 is:

As neuroscientists like to say, “Neurons that fire together, wire together.”

The appendix adds:

...the phenomenon is more formally known as Hebb’s principle or Hebbian plasticity.

The original reference for this appendix entry is Hebb (1949).[1]


References

  1. Hebb, Donald O. 1949. The Organization of Behavior: A Neuropsychological Theory. New York: John Wiley & Sons Inc.